[His tone, rather than his words hit her, and it hit hard. He was cross, furious - and he was ordering her - just as he had that time in the fields, when he had taken her shoulders and had shaken her so hard she had laughed.
She did not feel like laughing just then.
This was serious - serious enough that he had almost shouted at her.]
You're cross with me, Sir.
[Her voice, on the contrary, is soft. She attempts to make it soothing, but her guttural tones do not allow for much softness to her tone.]
Well... Sir. We are not so different... we are not so different, her and me.
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[His tone, rather than his words hit her, and it hit hard. He was cross, furious - and he was ordering her - just as he had that time in the fields, when he had taken her shoulders and had shaken her so hard she had laughed.
She did not feel like laughing just then.
This was serious - serious enough that he had almost shouted at her.]
You're cross with me, Sir.
[Her voice, on the contrary, is soft. She attempts to make it soothing, but her guttural tones do not allow for much softness to her tone.]
Well... Sir. We are not so different... we are not so different, her and me.